Party & Programme
End the cycle of splits
24 May 2012
If the left is to build a serious political organisation it will have to facilitate internal dissent, writes Mike Macnair. And that will require both majorities and minorities to act responsibly
Commitment and collectivity
28 Feb 2019
René Gimpel continues his examination of the conflict between Jean-Paul Sartre’s political and philosophical passions
Individualism or class struggle?
21 Feb 2019
René Gimpel examines the philosophical and political development of Jean-Paul Sartre, and his fraught relationship with the French Communist Party
The spectre of socialism
14 Feb 2019
Paul Demarty casts a critical eye over the rise of self-styled socialists in the Democratic Party
Forty years of inequality
14 Feb 2019
The US administration preferred Islamists to leftists, says Yassamine Mather
Next on Trump’s list
08 Feb 2019
Events in Venezuela amount to an imperialist coup attempt - but the left still draws no lessons from the failures of the ‘Bolivarian revolution’. Paul Demarty investigates
The Tory interpretation
31 Jan 2019
Mike Macnair argues that there is an institutional bias in the teaching of history. It is a bias that suits the agenda of those who believe in inequality, the natural order and firm government
Heading for another victory
31 Jan 2019
With the ANC consolidating its position, there is a huge vacuum to its left, observes Peter Manson. But who will attempt to fill it?
Socialism and the national question
17 Jan 2019
Genuine liberation for Palestinians and Israelis alike must be seen in the context of an Arab and global revolution, argues David Markovich
Marxism versus holy script
10 Jan 2019
There are those on the left who still insist, for their own peculiar reasons, on getting the history of Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution radically wrong. Jack Conrad replies to Jim Creegan
The will to liberate
10 Jan 2019
Neglect of the woman question in the early Soviet republic was not the result of isolation and economic backwardness, argues Anne McShane
Different perspectives, different objectives
20 Dec 2018
Both Lars T Lih and Jack Conrad are wrong when it comes to the history of Bolshevism, argues Jim Creegan
A sad state of affairs
20 Dec 2018
Peter Manson looks at what passes for internal debate in the run-up to the SWP conference
Working class trade policy
20 Dec 2018
Mike Macnair concludes his series on ‘free trade’ by looking at the positive alternative
He who pays the piper
13 Dec 2018
Why are the billionaire Koch brothers funding Spiked, whose origins lie in the Revolutionary Communist Party? Eddie Ford looks at a strange journey from far left to alt-right
Competition and cooperation
06 Dec 2018
Review of 'Elinor Ostrom’s rules for radicals' by Derek Wall, Pluto Press, 2017, pp160, £16.99